DOJ 'Critically' Needs $34 Million More for Jan. 6 Investigations Eric Mack | Thursday, 20 October 2022 01:59 PM EDT
The Justice Department has warned Congress that $34 million more in funding is "critically needed" to continue Jan. 6 investigations and prosecutions.
"The cases are unprecedented in scale and is expected to be among the most complex investigations prosecuted by the Department of Justice," the DOJ wrote to Congress, NBC News reported.
While the message is yet to truly take hold with lawmakers, according to the report, the added funding would have to come in December's spending bill when the Continue Resolution to fund the government expires.
If the DOJ's requested boost fails to make it in the spending package, NBC News reported there's concern that Republicans will not work to fund it if the GOP retakes the House majority in these midterms.
"There are lots of requests," House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said when asked about boosting the DOJ budget for Jan. 6 prosecutions of Americans who protested the 2020 election certification. "We're taking a look at all of them and seeing what makes it and seeing what doesn't make it."
The Jan. 6 investigations have been ongoing for 21 months led by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., and assisted by 93 federal prosecutors' offices around the country.
"We don't have the manpower," an official told NBC in July.
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